When will Visual Basic be phased out of Epicor? What release contains this? How will I be effected?
You will be shamed less.
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But seriously, Epicor has C# -> JavaScript converters but no VB -> JavaScript so any automagical conversions to webby things won’t work.
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I DIDN’T WRITE IT IN VISUAL BASIC DAMNIT. I wrote one excel macro in visual basic and said i was never going to use it again. Then i come to work here and people wrote a ton of stuff in it and now i’m left here with this crap code.
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I am having to sift through this code fixing it, however I feel like it would be easier to just rewrite the whole thing correctly using c#. I can’t do this though because we don’t know when we’re upgrading. I am left patching stuff in vb waiting to rewrite the whole thing next year.
In Customization Maintenance, there is a helper tool. It’s not perfect but it might help you out a bit. Click on View Customization under the Action Menu and go to the Custom Code Tab.
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sweet that’s cool! thank you
You could always throw a hook out on the forum to get someone to convert everything over for you. As mentioned, the converters get you close, but not quite.
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Online converter and the Customization Maintenance get you 80%. The last bit is tricky for someone new, but minutes for someone experienced. I personally feel it is always worth the conversion and recommend it often.
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It’s also not a bad idea to take this oppurtunity to find out what the intent of the customization was. You could do a perfect VB to c# port, only to find out it didn’t exactly do what they wanted when it was done in VB.
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